Christine E. Bose was born on March 3, 1948 in New York, New York. In
1969, she earned her B.A. in mathematics from Wagner College followed by her
Ph.D. in sociology from John Hopkins University in 1974. From 1973-1978, Bose
served as assistant professor of sociology and women’s studies at the
University of Washington. She was involved in the inception of the Women
Studies program at the University of Washington and served as acting director
1975-1978. She taught at State University of New York at Albany from 1981 to
2017 when she became Professor Emerita of Sociology with joint appointments in
the Departments of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Latin American,
Caribbean, and US Latino Studies. She is also affiliate faculty at the
University of Washington in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality
Studies. Bose published in the areas of occupational prestige and status
attainment, women’s employment as it varies by ethnicity, the social impact of
household technology, women’s work at the turn of the 20th century, gender and
development in Latin America, women’s global carework and migration, and global
gender research.